Various members wrote: > Interlace provided the CE industry with a wonderful tool to > retrench all kinds of IP that was either expired, or about > to expire. They > The scuttlebutt was that Zenith would not raise its royalty per > set for including E-VSB if a licensee agreed to vote for E-VSB > and to continue paying royalty for term of E-VSB patents. > E. g., no increase in royalty, but a time extension. > Struck me as an illegal tying arrangement. > There is little room for innovation with the ATSC standard, > and overt efforts to stifle it. A great example is the refusal > to modify the standard to include perfectly legal MPEG-2 modes. These incidents/issues say volumes about the ATSC process; it's mostly about protecting ones turf. Dale > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.